The Devil's Origin

56: Wyvern. (NSFW)

I was up in the sky along with the wyvern, flying away from the small village.

But the wyvern's question was still ringing in my mind.

.......... The reason why I protected the human... That kid from before...

I kept on asking myself the reason why.

But I knew for certain.

Even if I were given 100 chances to redo it, I would surely decide to protect that young boy.

Then what about the adult human? The soldiers? The adventurer?

I.. Don't know.

I still hadn't found the right answer to the wyvern's question.

After flying for a while, I saw a forest that could serve as a good place to hide.

I asked the wyvern to bring us down there.

Sitting down on a large rock, I told the wyvern I had something to discuss with him.

"Tell me about yourself, Wyvern."

((By your will.))

With an overall length of 3 meters, this wyvern was still considered a small one for a dragon.

Unlike the red dragon or the black dragon, the wyvern's body was quite slender and his wings were very big compared to his body.

His green scales blend well against the forest.

((I was born 2 years ago. Shortly before that, our wyvern colony was attacked by the humans, led by the hero.))

The wyvern became silent for a while before he continued.

(( The hero was the leader, or should I say they didn't need anyone else but the hero. The hero easily slain the strongest wyvern with one blow. He severed the neck of the other adult and then he... He used something like a hammer to destroy the eggs so no one was left behind. The scene of carnage that I saw... It was something I couldn't forget.))

The sheer imagery of it was enough to render me speechless.

((Mustering his final strength, my father hid me away in a rocky area, determined to save my life until his last dying breath. When I came into being, I was surrounded by nothing but the decaying corpses of my brethren. I cried for help, for anyone to hear my plea but there was nothing but the rotten smell of death around me. After that... I had to do whatever I could to survive. There was nothing for me to eat so I had to make do with grass or moss lying around the rock. Sometimes if I were lucky, I'd get to eat some bugs as the only source of my protein. But still... It was not enough to sustain my growing body. So... I had to eat the corpse of my brethren while crying my heart away.))

He was... Alone.

Just to survive, he had to eat the rotten corpse of his own family.

He had no one else but himself...

((2 years. I had to do whatever I had to grow up during the last 2 years. My only purpose in life is to get revenge on the human that killed my family. I have no purpose in my life but that...))

"And that's why you attacked the village."

((Yes. That village was the closest human settlement. I figured if I kept on attacking that village, sooner or later the hero and the other humans that annihilated my brethren would surely come. It's not like I want to prey on the weak. Those weak humans in that village served as nothing but bait for me to lure the hero out.))

That was why despite him continuing to attack the village, he never hurt the villagers that ran away.

But.. Still....